NANCY FOWLER: DIC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment (DIC), an independent children's entertainment company, has promoted NANCY FOWLER to president, worldwide consumer products. Fowler, who joined DIC in 2002 as senior vice president of worldwide consumer has been responsible for managing the worldwide relaunch of the Strawberry Shortcake brand.

Gyro Chicago hired Mark Witthoefft as head of planning. Witthoefft has worked for digital agencies like Razorfish and R/GA, along with more traditional shops such as Arnold and Element 79. Most recently, he was executive director of integrated strategy at the digital agency, Resource. Witthoefft has worked for clients like ...

Robbie Durand, former editor-in-chief of FLEX magazine, will join Generation Iron Fitness Network as a contributing editor where he will develop and oversee written content, as well as provide weekly columns on the science of fitness and bodybuilding.

true[X], recently acquired by 21st Century Fox, has opened an office in San Francisco. Patrick Gales, director of global business development, will relocate from Los Angeles to San Francisco to run the office. He has worked for true[X] since 2011.

Chelsey McGrogan joins Smith Brothers as an associate producer with more than two years of project management experience in supervising advertising projects, maintaining client relationships and supporting editorial writing. Previously, McGrogan managed the editorial content and project management responsibilities for B2B clients in the trucking, transportation, logistics and machine-to-machine industries.

CMG Partners hired Mark Schweitzer as a partner. Previously, he was senior vice president of marketing and product at Comcast Business, chief commercial officer at Virgin Media (UK), and chief marketing officer at Sprint-Nextel.